Led by: Yuri Maezumi
Dates: 12-16 July 2023
Practitioners of all levels welcome, including complete beginners.
What you will learn:
Day 1
Time Session Details
12:00 – 14:00 Guest arrival
15:30 – 16:30 Discovering personal cultivation
● Why is personal cultivation important and what are we aiming for?
● The San Bao balance in personal practice
● Importance of regularity
● Qualities vs. formes
● Yang training (intention on correction) vs Yin practice (letting go)
16:30 – 16:55 Tea break
17:00 – 18:30 Finding Alignment (interactive teaching session)
● 18 points of Nei Gong
● Basic Hands introduction; lines of movement
● Q & A
19:30 – 20:20 Dinner
20:30 – 21:00 Getting to know our mind
● Introducing Shen Gong
● The three types of attention
21:00 – 21:30 Group meditation
● Indoor or outdoor seated meditation
21:30 – 22:00 Group meditation
● Indoor or outdoor seated meditation, 2nd period (optional)
22:30 Lights out
Day 2
Time Session Details
6:00 – 7:25 Individual / partner practice (optional) with corrections
● Free time to review practices (Indoor or outdoor)
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Basic Hands: continued Outdoor Interactive Session
● Basic Hands: coordination
● 18 points of Nei Gong continued
10:00 – 10:25 Tea break
10:30 – 11:30 Stability through rooting (Outdoor interactive session)
● Rooting the structure is rooting the mind
● Push-pull partner exercise: introduction to rooting
11:00 – 11:45 Introduction to the Walk of the Adept
● Seated teaching
● Q & A
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:55 Individual / partner practice (optional) / Walk of the Adept in nature
● Free time to review practices
● Possibility for 2 acupuncture sessions
15:00 – 16:30 Basic Hands: continued
● What is uniting? The underlying qualities associated with unification
● Various exercises to develop structural union
16:30 – 16:55 Tea Break
17:00 – 18:30 Introduction to Conscious Breathing
● Feeling the breath
● Abdominal breathing
● Q&A
19:30 – 20:20 Dinner
21:00 – 21:30 Group breathing session
21:30 – 22:00 Group breathing session (2nd period – optional)
22:30 Lights out
Day 3
6:00 – 7:25 Individual / partner practice (optional) with corrections
● Free time to review practices
● Indoor or outdoor
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Basic Hands: continued
● Basic Hands, emphasis on Feeling
● 18 points of Nei Gong continued
10:00 – 10:25 Tea break
10:30 – 11:30 Partner Work
Outdoor interactive session
● Tui Shou; Push-Pull + Drills: developing trust in hand movement
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:55 Individual / partner practice (optional) / adept walking in nature
● Free time to review practices
● Indoor or outdoor
● Possibility for 2 acupuncture sessions
15:00 – 16:30 6 harmonies introduction
● Peng; the fundamental principle of Taiji Quan
● Dissociating the union into segments
16:30 – 16:55 Tea Break
17:00 – 18:30 Introduction to Emotional Work
● Seated teaching
● Q & A
19:30 – 20:20 Dinner
21:00 – 21:30 Group meditation
21:30 – 22:00 Group meditation (2nd period, optional)
22:30 Lights out
Day 4
Time Session Details
6:00 – 7:25 Individual / partner practice (optional) with corrections
● Free time to review practices
● Indoor or outdoor
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Basic Hands : the Foundation Outdoor Interactive Session
● Basic Hands, 1st series continued; emphasis on Feeling
● Feeling : the fundamental of Nei Gong
○ The Yin and the Yang with the Dan Tien
10:00 – 10:25 Tea break
10:30 – 11:30 Internal Work
Outdoor interactive session
● Nei Gong: feeling the Yin & Yang
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:55 Individual / partner practice (optional) / Walk of the Adept in nature
● Free time to review practices
● Indoor or outdoor
● Possibility for 2 acupuncture sessions
15:30 – 16:30 Introduction to Push Hands (Outdoor interactive training)
● Partner drills
● Introduction to Push Hands
16:30 – 16:55 Tea Break
17:00 – 17:30 Shen Gong (mind work) continued
● Open awareness practice
● Q & A
19:30 – 20:20 Dinner
20:30 – 21:00 Group meditation: Open awareness
21:00 – 22:00 Council Circle: Outdoor seated council circle around a fire
● Sharing of thoughts, impressions or feelings in a safe environment
22:30 Lights out
Day 5
Time Session Details
6:00 – 7:25 Individual / partner practice (optional) with corrections
● Free time to review practices
● Indoor or outdoor
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 Conclusion Indoor seated discussion
● Q & A
● Reviewing the qualities and essential points
of personal practice
10:00 – 13:00 Guest departure
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (optional)
Price:
535 € total in shared rooms
420 € total in your own tent/caravan
Includes teaching, 4-night stay 3 meals a day